the rising full moon over the Pinnacles, near Cervantes lit by the remains of the setting sun hand held, elbows on the sand Pentax 10-17 fisheye 1/5 second, f 9

moon over the Pinnacles

the rising full moon over the Pinnacles, near Cervantes lit by the remains of the setting sun hand held, elbows on the sand Pentax 10-17 fisheye 1/5 second, f 9

Paramodelic – Graffiti

Paramodelic – Graffiti part of the 2014 Perth Festival at Curtin University made from mass produced toys and bright blue plastic railway track and featuring some Aussie animals too a five photo fisheye stitch and afterwards we got to play trains 🙂

long nosed potoroo

A long nosed potoroo awake usually i have seen them asleep Caversham wildlife park a 4 image stitch pentax f4 300mm lens

Whale watching

on a whale watching tour with Mills Charters it seemed a pretty rough day for this land lubber but worth it to get a few glimpses of the whales 🙂

elephant seal panorama

an elephant seal that spent a few day on the sand at Sorrento Beach (Perth) a young adult or teenager catching a bit of sunshine, but not a lot of peace and quiet a few thousand people showed up to see what is a very infrequent visitor to our shores this is a 6 photo...

elephant seal

for some reason a sub adult Southern elephant seal has decided to make Sorrento beach, Perth, its home for a while. They, as far as I know, have never come to Perth before, although we do get other seals and sea lions. Tasmania I think is a close as they normally get As you can...

Australia Day 2014

fireworks on Australia Day 26th January 2014. taken from near Langley park looking across the Swan River, Perth WA Pentax 10mm fisheye lens

Breakaway

exploring around Dalwallinu, looking for access to a large salt lake we followed a “rabbit” track, only to find we were getting further away, luckily Barb wore her hiking thongs (flip flops) (the full story here) we did however find this rather impressive breakaway complete with birds mud nests under the overhangs

The Stirling Ranges

The Stirling ranges taken over a paddock near the Porongurups A larger picture here

outback holiday – Wreath flower

On a winter wildflower hunting holiday north of Dalwallinu we found a lot of wreath flowers, Lechenaultia macrantha, on the side of the road